Tomislav Marijan
Bilosnić (1947, Zemunik,
Donji, Croatia). Lives in Zadar City. A poet, publicist and the national
poet of Croatia. In October 2016, he attended the “Cultural Croatian Days” in
Bucharest, an exhibition organized by the “Contemporary Literary Horizon” magazine
in collaboration with the Croatian Embassy (with the competition of
ambassador Davor Vidiš). His published books: Senza luna (1968), Pred
zavjesama (1974), Zario ruku u srce
(1979), Il capricorno alato (Napoli,
1983), Rika jelena (1988), Kalendar sna (1995), Odisejeve pjesme (2007), Listopad (2008), Molitve (2009), Wrought
Silver (2010), Afrika (2011,
2017), Vrt (2014) and many others.
The poetry of Tomislav Bilosnić, „the tiger” of the Croatian contemporary
poetry, has force, message and style. „In letter and in spirit, the poet-tiger
touches the profound depths of humanity in everyone, noting our dreams,
imagining himself alongside the painters, the poets and the story-tellers of
the Orient and Occident, brothers in this unique presence of the tiger, making
us see to the stars because „the sky is adorned with eyes of a tiger”. The
physics and the metaphysics of singing victory, in spite of a certain distrust
or generalized theme of the tiger. A chant after another chant or radiography.”
(Alfredo Perez Alencart). Published in CLH: 5/2014, 4-5/2016, and 1/2017. Books
in the „Bibliotheca Universalis” collection: The Tiger (2015).

For many reasons 2017 is an anniversary year for us. It means a new chronological landmark along our cultural and intercultural existence. A decade of activity and 60 published issues means strength and perseverance in a process of creation on many planes.Following the principle of the snowball, we have continuously grown, not just out of inertia, but also through the active participation of a team of collaborators from all the corners of the world. The name list is too long to be reproduced here in extenso. We are glad the the magazine published a lot of poetry, prose, essays and interesting critical articles, interviews with contemporary cultural personalities from Europe, Latin America, the United States, Africa and the East. Since 2011 our magazine has published poetry anthologies. This was started by Antonio Arroyo who coordinated an anthology of poets from the Canary Islands. Neil Leadbeater followed with “A Scottish Dozen”, then Caroline Gill with English poets, Luis Benitez with Argentinian poets, Donald Riggs with poets from Philadelphia and many others. Beginning with 2010, in Bucharest, we have organized a series of Intercultural Springs, hosted by the National Museum of Romanian Literature, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Open Art Library, and from 2015 some foreign collaborators of the magazine started to take part in these events: Anna Rossell (Spain), Paul Sutherland (United Kingdom-Canada), Matthias Erdbeer (Germany), Andrés Morales (Chile), Zeljka Lovrenčić şi Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić (Croatia). No less significant were Monica Manolachi’s meetings with Neil Leadbeater, Morelle Smith and Katherine Gallagher, occasioned by her visits to England and Scotland in 2016, as well as her meeting with poet Kees van Meel, when she visited the Netherlands. These direct contacts have played a special role in our intercultural activity.The bilingual books in the collection Bibliotheca Universalis were a prolongation of our jounalistic activity on another level. Starting with 2014, so far over 130 books have been published in this collection, which convincingly illustrate European literary creation: Peter Thabit Jones, Neil Leadbeater, Douglas Lipton, Morelle Smith, Graham Fulton, Richard Livermore, Martin Bates (United Kingdom), Raymond Walden, Matthias Erdbeer (Germany), Ettore Fobo, Claudio Sottocornola (Italy), Donald Adamson (Finland), Roxana Doncu, Monica Manolachi, Gheorghe Glodeanu, Radu Igna (Romania), Anna Rossell, Antonio Arroyo, Felix Arencibia, Luis Angel Marin Ibañez (Spain), Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić (Croatia). From the United States we published Donald Riggs, Alex Kudera, Valerie Fox and John Tischer. Latin America is represented so far by Mexican authors (like poet Marina Centeno), Brazilian (Dante Gatto, Gilvaldo Quinzeiro), Argentinian (Luis Benitez), Chilean (Theodoro Elssaca, Astrid Fugellie, Carmen Troncoso). Another group of authors (already published or expecting publication) is from Uruguay and includes Niza Todaro, Carlos V. Gutiérrez, Guillermo Lopetegui, Ada Vega, Carlos M. Federici. During this year, through Noëlle Arnoult, Claude Colson, Fr. Fort, Sylvain Escalier etc., the French presence became more visible in the CLH.A special place in the Bibliotheca is occupied by the poetry anthologies compiled by Ingrid Odgers (Chile), Antonio Arroyo şi Isa Guerra (The Canaries), Neil Leadbeater şi Sally Evans (Scotland), Antonio MR Martins (Portugal), Mirian Caloretti Castillo (Peru), Valerie Fox, with the anthology “New Work by Philadelphia Poets”. Niza Todaro coordinated “The Uruguayan Literary Anthology” (poetry and prose), which was succesfully launched this summer at the Romanian embassy in Montevideo. The Scottish poets managed to organize some cultural events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, where the books published in Bibliotheca Universalis were introduced to the public.Of course, one cannot overlook the cultural and literary performances of some of our friends and collaborators. Thus Peter Thabit Jones was awarded an European poetry prize in 2016, Theodoro Elssaca received, in Craiova, the “Mihai Eminescu” prize for prose, while the Peruvian poet Mirian Caloretti Castillo received an award at the International Poetry Festival in Curtea de Argeș not long ago. Writer Niza Todaro received an award for her prose in Buenos Aires in 2016, and the award “Estrella del Sur” in Montevideo in 2017. In 2016 and 2017 Monica Manolachi was also given an award for her translations in Râmnicu Sărat. In the near future there is no doubt that other authors and collaborators will receive awards for their writings and praise from the public and literary critics.After 60 issues and almost a decade of existence, the magazine “Contemporary Literary Horizons”, consolidated by the publications in Bibliotheca Universalis and served by a team of competent and devoted collaborators, continues to believe in the viability of its intercultural project and the possibility of reuniting, in the most relevant way, a whole world in its pages.

Richard Livermore (1944, United Kingdom). Poet. He attended various boarding-schools in the south of England and at the age of 15 left and went from job to job. In 1973, he moved to Edinburgh in Scotland and in 1974 went to Newbattle Abbey College near Dalkeith, Midlothian, and then to the University of Edinburgh. Apart from living five years in Madrid (1985-1990), where he taught English, he has lived and worked in Edinburgh since 1973, doing various kinds of work as well as studying. Richard Livermore has had many poems published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, Spain, Italy and the USA, as well as broadcast by the BBC. He has also been published by Lothlorien, Diehard, Chanticleer Press and Elefantasia Press in book form. Published in CLH: 6/2016, 1, 2, 3/2017. Books in „Bibliotheca Universalis”: Selected Poems (2017). Included by Sally Evans and Neil Leadbeater in Anthology of Scottish Poets („Bibliotheca Universalis”, 2016).

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